Save RAW Data

Saving RAW data to disk is useful, it allows you to reprocess the data with different processing configurations.

Viewer #

Open camera settings

Turn off on camera processing

Open record data

Pick a file name and press start after configuring the size/length of your capture

Code #

import chronoptics.tof as tof

cam = tof.KeaCamera(tof.ProcessingConfig(), "202001a")
cam.setOnCameraProcessing(False)

writer = tof.createCsfWriterCamera("frames.csf", cam)

tof.selectStreams(cam, [tof.FrameType.RAW, tof.FrameType.BGR])
cam.start()

print("Dropping frames")

# Drop frames
for _ in range(100):
    frame = cam.getFrames()

print("Frames dropped")

# Capture frames
for _ in range(10):
    frames = cam.getFrames()

    for frame in frames:
        writer.writeFrame(frame)

    del frames

print("Frames captured")
cam.stop()
del writer